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Show PALATIAL STEA1VIER REPUBLIC SINKS BENEATH' " THE WAVES In Tow of Revenue Cutter Gresham, En Route to New York, Rapidly Settles, Seeing No Hope, Captain Gives Orders to Abandon the Ship, Sensational Drama of the yr Sea Ends, All Passengers and Crew Saved, Vessels Still in Dense Fog. New York, .tan. 24. The palatial ocean steamship Republic of the White Star line which was in collision with the. Italian liner Florida early Satur-1 , ;day morning, off Nantucket, Mass., -went down at half pa6t eight o'clock) ('tonight. No one was lost. Her pass- engers were taken off many hours be-, be-, fore, and are on the steamship Baltic, i which was off Sandy Hook at a late j iour, making for this port. ' The Republic was in tow of the rev-' rev-' enue cutter .Gresham and the dere-I dere-I lict destroyer Seneca, proceedlnf to j New York, when she sank. On board her was Captain Sealby with a volunteer vol-unteer detail of their crew. They had towed but a short distance when sho began to settle rapidly. Seeing no hope of saving the ship. Captain Seal-, Seal-, by gave the order to abandon the ship and the crew was taken off by the Gresham, which cast loose from tho crippled "liner and stood by until sho sank beneath the waves. The Gresham aud the Seneca then beaded for the Mabsachusetts coast and will land Captain Sealby and his brave crew at Gay Head, Mass., or Newport, R, I. As" to the exact point of landing wireless advices differ. The'polnt where the Republic went down Js described in brief wireless messages received here tonight as off No Man's Land, a, small island south of Martha's Vineyard Island, off tho Massachusetts coast, ' The Italian liner .Florida, which crasned into the Republic In the dense for off Nantucket, Mass., early Saturday Satur-day morning and gave her her death blow, i6 slowly steaming towards Now York, conveyed by the American liner er Now YorK. the most remarkable ocean mishaps on record. , Not less .than seven ocean liners, the Baltic, New York. Furnessla, La Lorraine and Lucania and the two crippled ships. Florida and Republic are figuring in the stirring story . The 442 passenger's and some members of the crew of the Republic have undertone under-tone two transfers on the open pea, ltrM to the crippled Florida on Saturday Satur-day morning and again early today to the commodious Baltic, which is bringing bring-ing also the 000 and more passengers from the disabled Florida With this great human cargo of lescued persons beside her own list of 930 passengers, th Baltic will arrive ar-rive off Sandy Hook about 11 oclock tonight. The Florida., her bow bent, niter the terrific impact with the Re-I Re-I ubllc, Is slowly steering, under her own steam, for this port, convoyed by the American liner New York. Until an early hour today" it was be lieved no one was killed or injured, but shortly after midnight the wireless- telegraph, that mysterious force which had apprised tho world of the Republic's distress, flashed the news I hat two passengers on the Republic had been killed and two others in-;ured. in-;ured. Late in the day another wireless wire-less message told of four deaths on board the Florida, cither of members of the crew or steerage passengers. The identity of theme was not made clear. The message from Captain Ransom of the Baltic to the White Star officials offi-cials gave the names of the dead passengers pas-sengers as Mrs. Eugene Lvnch. of tic, which were made public, no news was received. The bodies of the dead and injured are on the Baltic. The steamer Putnam Put-nam will be chartered by the company and will go alongside the Baltic when she reaches quarantine Monday, as .she is not expected to come up the bay tonight. Fitful new 6 of the disaster came from numerous wireless stations along the New England coast line. The story though in brief, but potent messages, mes-sages, told how the passengers of the Republic and Florida spent many anxious anx-ious and uncomfortable hours following follow-ing the wreck and not until 3 a. m. this morning when all were safe on the Baltic did they have a feeling of security. After transfer of the passengers from the Republic to the Florida, which had no accommodations for the 400 and more additions to her already heavy list. Captain Voltolon of the Italian ship gave orders to stand by until further help arrived. An examination exami-nation of the Florida showed that her cutwater and bow had been crumpled as if she had crashed Into a stone wall and her two forward compartments were filled with water. The Florida, however, showed no signs of sinking, though she was slightly down at the head. It was deemed best, therefore, at a late hour, lo transfer not only the Republic's passengers, pas-sengers, but all those on board the Florida as well. Captain Voltolon believed be-lieved his passage to New York would be slow and there were insufficient accommodations ac-commodations and supplies for so many passengers. 1 tie Baltic wo.6 In 'wireless communication com-munication with the Fire island station sta-tion at 1 o'clock tonight, but did not define her position. The weather wa3 very thick and sho. could not be sighted sight-ed from the observation station on Fire island. It was considered unlikely that the Baltic would come up the bay tonight, but would await daylight before pro-reeding pro-reeding to her pier. This, in brief, is the situation late tonight in the stirring story of the sea, following the first wireless flash on the collision of the two big ships. New York, Jan.. 24. The drama of the sea, which for more than twenty-four twenty-four hours has he,ld the attention of the world and which has not. been without tragic features, ran through Jta laot sensational scenes with the coming of Sunday's dawn and tonight Is nearing a fortunate, if 7iot happy ending. , The ramming of tho White Star lln-r lln-r Republic early Saturday morning toy the Italian liner Florida off Nan-'ucket, Nan-'ucket, Mass., has boen followed hv a serleg of events constituting one of JiOBton, and W. J. Mooney. a banker ol Langdon. N. D. The injured were Mrs. M. M. Murphy, Mur-phy, wife of the financial agent of the Union Central Life Insurance company com-pany of Grand Forks, N. D., and Eugene Eu-gene Lynch, of Boston. How the passengers of the Republic wore killed, or the nature of the injuries in-juries to Mrs. Murphy and Mr. Lynch i snot known by officials of the White Star line, who have communicated with relatives of the dead and injured. Mr. Mooney and his wife were bound, with Mr. otid Mrs. Murphy, on a pleasure pleas-ure trip from the west to" the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean and occupied state rooms on the' port side. Mr. and Mrs. Lynch occupied oc-cupied an adjoining Mate room. Thf company cannot understand how the papsencers were killed or injured In that part of the Republic, which is is understood, was struck amidships. Anxious friends and relatives be-.sieged be-.sieged th White Star ofhVp.s with inquiries in-quiries as to passengers on' the Re. public. Other than brief wireless meR-eagofi meR-eagofi of Captain Ransom of, the Bal- j |